Eugene E. Garc amp iacute a, PhD, is presently vice president for education partnerships at Arizona State University. He was dean of the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education from 2 2 amp ndash 2 . Before joining the faculty at Arizona State University, he was dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2 4 amp ndash 2 8 he chaired the National Task Force on Early Education for Hispanics funded by the Foundation for Child Development and four additional foundations. His most recent book is Teaching and Learning in Two Languages: Bilingualism and Schooling in the United States.
Jos amp eacute E. N amp aacute amp ntilde ez Sr., PhD, is a President's Professor of psychology and the executive director for community outreach in the Office of the Senior Vice-President for Educational Outreach and Student Services, Arizona State University. He earned his PhD in experimental child psychology from the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. His early research involved infant perceptual and cognitive development. Recent research includes exploration of alternative measures for identifying gifted Latino children and adolescents.
Dr. N amp aacute amp ntilde ez has contributed to numerous book chapters and journal articles on dual language learners, most recently contributing a chapter to Enhancing the Knowledge Base for Serving Young English Language Learners, edited by E. Garc amp iacute a and E. Frede. His cutting-edge collaborative neuroscience research explores perceptual learning and neuroplasticity and has been published in top-tier international journals, including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, PLoS ONE, and Current Biology. His current research interests include the relationship between bilingualism and neuroplasticity.
